Christopher was born in Reading, England and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as Resident Director of The Royal Opera House. Since then Chris has directed operas, plays and musicals all over the world. His favourite opera productions include Norma with Joan Sutherland (Sydney Opera House), Eugene Onegin conducted by Rostropovich (Aldeburgh Festival) and a new production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (Covent Garden). His celebrated series of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operettas (The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, and The Gondoliers) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London led to a crossover into plays and musicals. Christopher directed Hayley and Juliet Mills in Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels in Australia, Sir Brian Rix in Dry Rot in London’s West End, a television production of Ruddigore with Vincent Price and Cafe Puccini at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh. He received a Tony nom and a Drama Desk Award for The King And I, with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips, which also won four Tonys. Christopher’s production of Queen’s We Will Rock You is still playing at London’s Dominion Theatre. And his production of TABOO, which he co-conceived with Boy George, has just reopened in London.
Christopher Renshaw
Christopher was born in Reading, England and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He served as Resident Director of The Royal Opera House. Since then Chris has directed operas, plays and musicals all over the world. His favourite opera productions include Norma with Joan Sutherland (Sydney Opera House), Eugene Onegin conducted by Rostropovich (Aldeburgh Festival) and a new production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream (Covent Garden). His celebrated series of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operettas (The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, and The Gondoliers) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London led to a crossover into plays and musicals. Christopher directed Hayley and Juliet Mills in Noel Coward’s Fallen Angels in Australia, Sir Brian Rix in Dry Rot in London’s West End, a television production of Ruddigore with Vincent Price and Cafe Puccini at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh. He received a Tony nom and a Drama Desk Award for The King And I, with Donna Murphy and Lou Diamond Phillips, which also won four Tonys. Christopher’s production of Queen’s We Will Rock You is still playing at London’s Dominion Theatre. And his production of TABOO, which he co-conceived with Boy George, has just reopened in London.